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Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
“I Will Destroy You”: Biden Aide Threatened a Politico Reporter Pursuing a Story on His Relationship — Deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo lashed out at journalist Tara Palmeri, spurring conversations between Politico's brass and the White House—and raising questions about behavior tolerated in the Biden administration.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Even with acquittal, GOP sees trial ending Trump's shot at future office — Senate Republicans, including those who do not plan to vote to convict former President Trump, say this week's impeachment trial has effectively ended any chance of him becoming the GOP presidential nominee in 2024.
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CNN:
Three GOP senators meet with Trump's lawyers on eve of impeachment defense presentation — (CNN)A trio of Republican senators allied with former President Donald Trump met with his defense team Thursday evening, in the middle of an impeachment trial in which they will vote on whether …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“We Lost the Line”: Trump Is on the Brink of Yet Another Senate Acquittal — Republican senators ran for their lives, but they will not run from the former President. — A few hours into the presentation of the House managers' case against Donald Trump, for inciting the mob that stormed …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's impeachment defense centers on both having and eating cake
Trump's impeachment defense centers on both having and eating cake
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Hawley and Blunt deepen Missouri's embarrassment by refusing to see Trump's guilt
Hawley and Blunt deepen Missouri's embarrassment by refusing to see Trump's guilt
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Washington Post:
Who's talking the most during Trump's second impeachment trial
Who's talking the most during Trump's second impeachment trial
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
‘Hang Pence’: Connecting the dots on Trump's culpability
‘Hang Pence’: Connecting the dots on Trump's culpability
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump legal defense will argue impeachment trial is unconstitutional
Trump legal defense will argue impeachment trial is unconstitutional
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
New Allegations of Cover-Up by Cuomo Over Nursing Home Virus Toll — In a leaked conversation, the governor's top aide admitted that data was withheld on nursing homes, where more than 10,000 New Yorkers have died during the pandemic. — ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his top aides …
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New York Post:
Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out — Governor Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” …
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Politico:
Nikki Haley's Choice — The 2024 hopeful can't decide who she wants to be—the leader of the post-Trump GOP or a “friend” to the president who tried to sabotage democracy.
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Nikki Haley breaks with Trump: 'We shouldn't have followed him' — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued stunning remarks breaking with former President Trump, telling Politico in an interview published Friday that she believes he “let us down.”
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Nikki Haley criticizes Trump and says he has no future in the GOP
Nikki Haley criticizes Trump and says he has no future in the GOP
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
The most influential Democrat you never hear from — Kyrsten Sinema doesn't often make big policy pronouncements. But when she does, Democrats had better listen. — Take the $15 hourly minimum wage that Democratic leaders want to add to a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood Blacklist — In the 1950s, Hollywood studios — under pressure from the right — promised they would not “knowingly employ a communist.” This blacklist eventually became notorious, especially in Hollywood, which came to lionize its victims in several films.
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Josh Hammer / Newsweek:
Overwrought Nazi Analogies for Me, but Not for Thee?
Overwrought Nazi Analogies for Me, but Not for Thee?
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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Two officers who helped fight the Capitol mob died by suicide. Many more are hurting. — Engulfed in the crush of rioters storming the Capitol, D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith sent his wife a text that spoke to the futility and fears of his mission. — “London has fallen,” …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Could McConnell surprise us all? — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING OVERNIGHT — LINCOLN PROJECT MELTDOWN: Late Thursday night, the Lincoln Project published what appeared to be the private Twitter messages of its recently departed co-founder JENNIFER HORN …
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Yashar Ali / Yashar's Newsletter:
Scoop: FBI Investigating Allegations Against John Weaver, Sources Say — If you believe in the importance of this work and want to support me, subscribe here to get everything I publish and access to the community. All you have to do is click the button above. — A subscription is just $5 a month or $49.99 a year.
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New York Times:
Former Lincoln Project Workers Ask to Be Released From Nondisclosure Agreements
Former Lincoln Project Workers Ask to Be Released From Nondisclosure Agreements
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump disengaged from her husband's second impeachment trial and bitter over Jill Biden's publicity — (CNN)While former President Donald Trump watches his second impeachment trial unfold, Melania Trump spends most of her time post-White House relaxing at the spa and staying out of the fray.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's version of an insanity defense: His critics are insane — In the summer of 2015, two months after Donald Trump announced he was running for president, a blogger named Esther Goldberg read a Washington Post column by the conservative commentator George F. Will that accused Trump of being phony, vulgar and unprincipled.
Bret Stephens / New York Post:
Read the column the New York Times didn't want you to read — Last weekend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a piece criticizing the rationale behind the forced ouster of Times reporter Donald J. McNeil, but it was never published. Stephens told colleagues the column was killed by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Donors Fume: 'It's Bullshit' Biden Hasn't Called About Ambassadorships — “People are starting to second-guess whether or not they're qualified, whether or not they overshot the countries that they're qualified for,” one party bundler said. — They wrote massive checks.
USA Today:
Take whatever COVID vaccine you can get. All of them stop death and hospitalization. — Waiting for a more effective vaccine is actually the worst thing you can do to lower your risk of getting severely ill and dying of COVID-19. — Almost every day, we get the same questions from family …
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The ‘Sound And Fury’ Of Trump's Impeachment Trial Signifies Something Sinister For America — Trump isn't really on trial here, everyone who voted for him is. — Twitter had some fun Wednesday night when NBC's Andrea Mitchell tried—and miserably failed—to correct Sen. Ted Cruz on the source …
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George Will / Washington Post:
Will Senate Republicans allow their louts to rule the party? — The first of this century's national traumas is denoted by two numbers: 9/11. One purpose of, and a sufficient justification for, the second impeachment of the 45th president was to inscribe this century's second trauma in the nation's memory as: 1/6.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Did The Democrats “Tank” The Second Trump Trial? — Below is my column in USA Today on the lack of a strategy by the House to secure conviction in the trial of former President Donald Trump. As I have previously noted, the House managers did an excellent job in their presentations …
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Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Nation's oldest juvenile lifer, Joe Ligon, leaves Pa. prison after 68 years — Leaving the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County on Thursday morning, his white hair peeking out below a prison-issue hat, Joe Ligon was accompanied by a dozen large file boxes.
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Majority of Kentuckians disapprove of McConnell's job in Senate — A new poll released on Friday shows that a majority of Kentuckians disapprove of their state's senior senator, the GOP leader Mitch McConnell. — A survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy found that 53 percent …
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Sherrilyn A. Ifill / New York Times:
Lawyers Enabled Trump's Worst Abuses — The legal profession must reckon with its complicity in Trump's attack on democracy. — Ms. Ifill is a lawyer and author. She is president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., a civil rights legal organization.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Individual Charged With Threatening The President of The United States Appears In Federal Court — CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court today, charging David Kyle Reeves, 27, of, Gastonia, N.C., with threatening the President of the United States …
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
Biden to begin admitting migrants forced by Trump to wait in Mexico — The Biden administration will soon begin allowing migrants into the U.S. who, because of a Trump-era policy, have been forced to remain in Mexico while their asylum cases are processed. — As part of the new administration's …
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Kate Klonick / New Yorker:
Inside the Making of Facebook's Supreme Court — The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon, it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook. — On a morning in May, 2019, forty-three lawyers, academics, and media experts gathered in the windowless basement …
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